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MADRID.- The centre of Madrid has been the scene of a fight enters the crowd of the National Police and several hundred anti-fascists, who went to the fringes of the square of Tirso de Molina to burst an act of several groups of fascists. Radicals burned containers crossed cars and smashed several local and cabins.


The antifascist agreed to the central square, where he had been summoned an act
to 20.30 with the permission of the Government Delegation in Madrid and who went
to dozens of neo-Nazi and extreme of the groups' Nation and Revolution 'and'
Combat Spain '.



After exchanging insults with the convenors, burned some containers with which
mounted barricades and threw blunt objects at the police as stones, bricks and
material urban. Radicals are parapetaron in containers and cars crossing in the
middle of the street. The officers responded with rubber balls and smoke canisters.

The action of the forces of order obtained by disperse several streets adjacent
to the square. The anti-fascists during his escape from the police charges,
caused considerable damage to the furniture and many shops and banks.

Prior to the escalation of violence occur, the police evicted groups ultra
toward the Plaza Mayor, in order to avoid a direct confrontation between these
groups, which always have been kept at a distance.

According have seen visually elmundo.es, plainclothes police have detained an
undetermined number of anti-fascists during the altercation. Europa Press speaks
six arrests.

Several endowments firefighters rushed to the scene to extinguish the numerous
containers burned.

The Samur, for its part, has responded to a person injured by mild contusions,
which was released at the scene.
A symbolic place for antifascists

The convening of the Antifascist Assembly of Madrid occurred after knowing that
his rivals had chosen the mythical square Tirso de Molina to hold an electoral
act, when it has been one of the landmarks of the anti-fascist struggle. "

The antifascist consider it a "provocation" because the square is located a few
metres from the neighborhood of Lavapiés, where there is a high percentage of
immigrant population.

The Plaza Tirso de Molina is, for the antifascist groups, a symbolic place,
because it was 20 years ago Nazi groups raided posts spread of the square and,
in response, a series of demonstrations antifascists, turning Tirso de Molina in
a symbolic place for these groups.

"We can not and we will allow groups fascists, Nazis and xenophobic manifested
quietly in the center of our city, in our Plaza Tirso de Molina," concludes the
platform.